Section 149: Person in charge of closed place to allow access

(1) Where any building or other thing or place liable to search is closed, a person residing in or being in charge of the building, thing or place shall, on demand of the police officer or other person executing the search warrant, allow him free and unhindered access to it and afford all reasonable facilities for its search.
(2) Where access into the building, thing or place cannot be so obtained, the police officer or other person executing the search warrant may proceed in the manner prescribed by sections 9, 10, 12 and 13 of this Act.
(3) Where a suspect in or about the building, thing or place is reasonably suspected of concealing on his person an article for which search should be made, the suspect may be searched and if the suspect to be searched is a woman she shall be searched by another woman and may be taken to a police station for that purpose.
(4) A search under this part shall, unless the court or Justice of the Peace owing to the nature of the case otherwise directs, be made in the presence of two witnesses and the person to whom the search warrant is addressed may also provide a witness within the neighbourhood.
(5) A list of all things found on his person and seized shall be drawn up by the person carrying out the search and shall be signed or sealed by the person to whom the search warrant is addressed, the person executing the search warrant and the witnesses, and a witnessed copy of the list shall be delivered to the person searched.
(6) Where a place to be searched is an building physically occupied by a woman who according to custom or religion, does not appear in public, the person making the search shall, before entering the building, give notice to the woman that she may withdraw and shall afford her every reasonable facility for withdrawing and may then enter the building.